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Oct. 21, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Okay, now I mentioned to you that Nancy Pelosi had offered to help the Republicans choose their next speaker, right?
And now you're telling me that Harry Reed has endorsed Paul Ryan.
Did you see that?
Harry Reid's endorsed Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan says I'll do it, but I have to be unanimously elected.
I am not traveling on weekends.
I stay with my family, and you gotta get rid of that provision that Thomas Jefferson wrote that can recall the speaker.
If you do all that, I might think about doing it.
And the Democrats are right along line with this.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, isn't Paul Ryan the guy the Democrats accused of pushing a wheel wheelchair bound granny over the cliff?
And now they're deciding that that's the guy they want to be, the Republicans.
What does that tell us all?
Anyway, folks, how are you?
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone, 800 282-2882.
If you want to be on the program at the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
The drive-by media at this moment is breathless.
Because Joe Biden is about to make a statement.
They are breathless out there.
Their tongues are practically hitting the sidewalk in excitement.
Wolf Blitzer looking somber right now, saying Biden to deliver statement in minutes.
Gee, I wonder what it would be.
What in the world could Biden be talking about?
That he forgot to put on his underwear today?
You know, he likes walking around nude.
It's one of the problems they have.
They have to have a guy making sure Biden gets dressed.
Don't look at me.
Don't look at me.
I'm just, I'm just telling you.
Biden's out there is telling a couple different versions of the same story.
They're totally different versions.
Just happened the last couple of days, and Gail King over at CBS News.
Well, couldn't, couldn't really?
Uh, couldn't really both of them be true.
So this is gonna be fun, whatever it is.
I'm maybe make a wild guess that Biden's gonna say that he's gonna run for president.
Uh why why call an announcement to say you're not going to by the way, Obama is gonna be there.
It's gonna be in the Rose Garden.
Why would you go to the Rose Garden to say you're not gonna do something?
And Obama is going to be there.
In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, Hillary and the Benghazi hearings are tomorrow.
And that's another thing the drive-by's are all excited about, and you know she has been rehearsing.
There's an NBC Wall Street Journal poll out.
More Americans are unsatisfied with Clinton's response to the Benghazi attack.
It's an NBC news story.
If you read the whole article, they don't put this in the headline, but if you read the whole article, it turns out 73% of Americans are unsatisfied with her responses on Benghazi.
And 64% of Americans do not think the investigation has been unfair or too partisan.
But why ruin a good story with a headline that tells the truth?
Did you see by did you see you know I told you the other day when I came in, I think I told I think I told you people too.
The Star Wars trailer ran during Monday night football.
I can't remember if I told you or not.
My little tech tech blog buddies, they were so mad.
These gigs were so ticked off they had to turn on a football game and on ESPN.
They hate that because that means they had to turn on cable.
They hate cable.
And they wanted to, and they have and they hate football.
Football's barbaric.
I mean, it's almost as uncool as golf is.
And they had to turn on a football game and endure some of the stuff at halftime just to see the two-minute, what was it, 20 second Star Wars trailer.
Anyway, are you ready for this?
The Star Wars trailer outrated the game.
The game was the New Jersey Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles.
And it was an Eagles blowout for the most part.
And the Star Wars trailer actually outrated the game.
Little tech blogger buddies tuned in at geeks and they watched it and they tuned right out.
And uh and Nielsen Caught it.
So.
Now back to the Benghazi hearings for just a say you have to hear this.
This is Patricia Smith on CNN's newsroom this morning.
Patricia Smith is the mother of Sean Smith.
The computer specialist who was killed at the consulate in Bengaz.
Oh, do you know, by the way, you know what's judicial watches uncovered?
There was actually a different video that the regime wanted to blame before they settled on the one they settled on.
They had an argument over which video to pick and choose as the excuse for what happened in Benghazi.
Now your reaction should be winter, pick and choose.
I thought there was a video out there, and the Muslims and the Islamists saw it, and it just made them mad and they started raising hell.
No, no, no.
Nobody had seen the video, and it turns out the Obama administration had to pick one of two.
And the original choice was something other than what they eventually settled on.
Anyway, Patricia Smith, who is the mother of Sean Smith, the computer specialist killed at Benghazi, is being interviewed on CNN about Hillary's scheduled testimony before the committee tomorrow.
Carol Costello is the info, babe.
She plays the clip from January 2013, the Benghazi hearing when Hillary said, What difference does it make?
She played that clip for Patricia Smith and then said, when you heard that, what went through your mind, Mrs. Smith?
She's lying.
She's absolutely lying.
She told me something entirely different at the casket ceremony.
She said it was the cause of the video, and that she would get back to me and tell me what happened with my son.
She has not only not gotten back to me, but all I've ever heard is that I am not not to know because I am not a member of the immediate family.
I still want to know.
I saw on TV the bloody fingerprints on the walls over there.
I asked specifically, are those my son's fingerprints crawling down the wall, the bloody fingerprints.
Nobody ever got back to me on that.
Are those his fingerprints?
Were those his fingerprints?
What happened?
Somebody's got to tell me from the government.
She's lying.
She's lying.
Absolutely lying.
Told me something entirely different at the casket ceremony, which we all knew.
It's just powerful to hear this.
From the mother of one of the four people killed in Benghazi.
And Hillary lied to her.
The whole administration lied to all these people, blaming the video, promised they get back to them, have never gotten back to them.
They've just been left hanging.
Then Carol Costello.
You won't believe this next question.
Here's here's the next question.
After what you just heard, this was the question Carol Costello was inspired to ask.
These hearings have taken on a partisan tone.
Does that worry you?
Not in the least.
Not in the least.
It is not partisan.
The thing is, this was Hillary's department, and she is the one that made the choices, made the decisions, made everything necessary, and caused it to happen and killed my son.
Just tell me.
So I so I can get some peace out of this.
She hasn't bothered telling me.
And she has no intention of telling me.
Or I don't know if it's her personally that did this or her people that said that nobody should tell me anything because I shouldn't know.
You believe the question, Carol Costello.
Well, these hearings have taken on a partisan tone.
Did that worry you?
Of all the crazy things to ask.
A mother who is still in great pain over the inexplicable death of her son.
The regime is promised over and over again to explain what happened to get back to her.
They haven't.
They've lied to her about this video.
And this whole notion of the hearings being partisan, this was a it's not.
This was one of these, another one of these gaffs.
I think it was Kevin McCarthy that made some kind of gap.
All he did was say that Hillary's numbers seem to have taken a hit since the hearings began.
And so the drive-by's get into action.
Aha!
You're just doing this to try to drive Hillary's numbers down.
Aha!
It's exactly what they do with any Republican that's in the crosshairs.
And that's not even what Kevin McCarthy was saying.
One final soundbite here question from Carol Costello.
Will you be watching these hearings tomorrow?
These partisan hearings.
She didn't say that I'm throwing that in, but it's what she means.
Will you be watching these hearings tomorrow?
Because they're gonna last for a long time.
Are you gonna be watching every moment?
I want to hear what Hillary has to say.
If she takes all day and all night to say something, I want to be there.
I want to hear it.
I want to hear it from her lips as she's lying to the American public again.
When this thing was going on, he was typing into his computer to his friends.
He says, if I live till morning, and he didn't expect to live till morning, because he says everything was happening out there.
This is a hell of a thing to have to tell your mother that you're not gonna make it.
She broke down.
She started crying.
I mean, she was getting messages from her son from on scene.
She interpreted as him not confident that he would live through the night.
She hasn't gotten a satisfactory explanation or answer from anybody about any of this.
She manifestly states that Hillary Clinton is lying and she wants to watch that.
Now, last night in Boston, New England cable news broadside.
This is a local access show, I guess.
The host is Sue O'Connell, and she spoke with Tufts University political science professor Jeffrey Bear.
You know what's famous about Tufts Magazine?
This goes way back to the early to mid-70s in a survey at Tufts Mag at Tufts University in Boston.
And they were able to draw a correlation between IQ and bust size.
And the higher the bus size, the lower the IQ.
Tufts University.
That was one of the first bits of news I ever used as a as a radio DJ in Pittsburgh when I ran across that.
Anyway.
Sue O'Connell speaking with Tufts University political science professor Jeffrey Barry about Hillary's scheduled testimony before the committee tomorrow.
She says, What do we really expect to see happen at the hearings?
Will we learn anything, Professor?
Republicans are loaded for bear.
They need to demonstrate that this is not as has been accused a political witch hunt.
So they need to show substance that are going to show anger.
Remember, they're playing to their base.
They're playing to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
They're going to show that uh Hillary Clinton is someone who cannot be trusted.
They've done a lot of damage already to her trust factor.
So I would expect them to really go after it.
Whole show that uh Benghazi goes right over the head of most Americans.
They don't know what it is.
They've forgotten or they don't care.
So it's not scoring a lot of points with voters generally, but it is red meat for Republican ideological media.
Oh, contraire, Professor, you need to consult the Wall Street Journal today.
And NBC News, 73%, professor.
73% of the American people are unsatisfied with Mrs. Clinton's response to Benghazi.
And a whopping 64% don't think the investigation's been unfair.
Or two parts.
It doesn't sound like the public doesn't know what they're being asked about.
Wall Street Journal has a little blurb today from James Freeman, Benghazi Hillary's missing hours.
What did Hillary Clinton leave, or why did she leave the State Department on September 11, 2012, while diplomats were under attack in Libya?
Then this is news to me.
Maybe I should have known this.
I knew that Obama was off the grid.
Not running.
Biden called a press conference for the Rose Garden and say he's not running?
Holy smokes, why do that?
A big press conference in a rose.
Biden just made it official.
He will not run for president.
Obama's looking on.
Like you better say what I told you to say, Joe.
Well, that is.
That's a look on Obama's face here.
I don't know, Bob uh seemed like Bruce Babbitt here.
Uh Biden's out there with his wife, lovely and gracious Jill, greatest wife ever, except for Trump's.
Great doctor, all that.
Joe told us a Democrat Convention.
He had his clothes on.
A press conference in a Rose Garden say you're not running.
Well, is there a big sigh of relief or big escaping of air in disappointment for what might have been what could have been?
Anyway, it was news to me that Hillary Clinton left.
I knew that Obama was off the grid.
We all know that Obama handed Benghazi off to Panetta and Hillary.
Now, the Wall Street Journal today, James Freeman.
Why did Hillary Clinton leave the State Department on 9-11, 2012, while diplomats were under attack at Benghazi?
John Bolton notes that on the fateful day when an ambassador of three other Americans were murdered, Mrs. Clinton went home for the night.
Bolton adds that she reportedly spoke exactly once at 10 p.m. with Obama when he called her to discuss the State Department news release that floated all of this was due to a video.
Mrs. Clinton never spoke at all to Panetta or the Joint Chief Chairman Dempsey, according to their congressional testimony.
And Mr. Bolton said, was Mrs. Clinton using her private email server while her State Department desk stood vacant?
If so, where are those emails?
So she bugged out.
She went home, was off the grid along with Obama.
And then at 10 o'clock spoke with Obama to discuss how they're going to blame it all on the video.
And this professor, by the way, up at Tuff saying that the House Republicans are playing to me.
And Fox.
These people are so dense.
It just if I were a student at their university or class, I'd I'd really be dissatisfied with the low range of education that I'm getting.
It just Joe Biden taking longer than anybody I've ever heard to say he's not running.
He just went through a laundry list of things that need to be fixed in this country as though he and Obama have not been in charge for seven years.
He just listed all of these things.
He talked about the extremism and the hatred and violence against the LGBT community and the institutional racism and all of these.
We thought that all this stuff was going to get solved in the first term of Obama.
And Biden's sitting out there talking about I feel great about this future of this country.
I'd rather live here than I'd rather live anywhere else in the world.
But then he made the point.
The only no, no.
Two things.
I never thought he was going to run.
I have always thought this was a smokescreen.
He's never even gotten close to winning the nomination.
This was not going to be the time that he was going to win.
I never bought into I think this was a head fake.
I think it was a feint, that it was a distraction.
But he reiterated here.
Just before I had to turn on a microphone resume the content portion of the program, he reiterated that the Republicans are not the enemy.
They are the opponents, and we can't do anything in this country without consensus.
We have to cooperate.
We have to work together.
We have to cross the aisle.
I thought I was listening to a Republican.
In that vein.
And what was noteworthy about that, of course, is that Hillary Clinton in the debate said that, in answer to question about his biggest enemies, named the Republicans.
And Biden, for the second time now, has said the Republicans are not the enemy.
He's still talking.
And he's going through this litany of things wrong that need to be fixed, that the next president's going to have to deal with.
The debate was listening these Democrats up there on the stage talk about this country as though they haven't been in charge for seven years.
You know, Obama's facial expression.
Okay, Joe, okay, fine, fine.
Wrap it up, bud.
Let's uh let's move on here.
You're still talking.
Hi, how are you?
Greetings.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Happy to have you here, broadcast excellence on display and happening now.
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This Biden speech.
Speech.
Biden appearance.
You know.
This speech was a classic I'm running for president speech.
This laid out an agenda.
His remarks established a pathway that he thinks the country should be on, and he would put us on, and is going to put us on.
It did not jibe whatsoever was somebody announcing they weren't going to run.
And I just I want to state again, and I've I have been laughed at and mocked and made fun of by my friends because I told them all along, you're getting sucked into something, it isn't going to happen.
Joe Biden is not going to run.
And I can't tell you the number of people who told me that I was missing this.
I said, no, you're the ones missing it.
This is a smokescreen for something.
He's not going to run.
Thank you.
And he makes this announcement, big announcement in the Rose Guard with Obama standing next to him with his wife standing on the other side the day before Hillary testifies on the Benghazi hearing.
Clears the way for her, did not endorse her, did not mention her, did not throw his support to her, but this set of remarks that we got would have been the media would proclaim this is one of the greatest coming out speeches ever for a candidate announcing his intentions to run for president.
It went on.
In fact, I'll tell you something, folks.
He kept talking and kept talking.
And I was worried that he was going to change his mind in the middle of this and talk himself into running after all.
And I think Obama was a little worried about that too.
This did not sound like somebody that was gonna that was announcing he wasn't gonna do something.
You know, it makes me also we all like to peek behind the curtain.
We all like to get into the room where we're not permitted and wonder what really went on in there.
And this was so odd that it makes me think he really wanted to do it and and powerful forces warned him not to.
Beyond that, I couldn't answer the question you'd have, well, why?
Why would that happen?
But this just was so incongruent.
And then you add to it this litany of defects that he cited in the country as though these people haven't been in power.
Uh it's it's just confusing.
It's it's it's classic of leftists in that sense.
But this speech, I want to reiterate this point.
This speech was an I'm running for president speech.
This is, I'm I'm convinced he wanted to do it.
Well, convinced.
But this is this is so much like a speech, somebody that's going to do something, and it would have been said to be one of the best ever such speeches.
And yet it's to announce he wasn't going to do this.
I think he really probably wanted to, and somebody leaned on him and said, nope, nope, nope.
And the deal was, okay, well, I get to go out and say what I wanted to say anyway.
And he did, and that's why Obama went out there with him.
Because believe me, folks, old Joe is old Joe, and he's a walking gaff machine.
And I think they had Obama out there as a as a living guardrail, if you will, a living restraint.
Cookie is rolling some bites from this speech off, and you'll be able to hear what I'm talking about when we get the bites uh up and running.
You'll see it sounds exactly like somebody that just can't wait to run, has got this massive agenda, and one thing he said he's gonna do.
We're on the cusp of curing cancer, and he's gonna devote all of his time now to that last bit of funding.
That's all we need, the last bit of funding, and we're so close.
So we're gonna get there.
Joe's gonna go out and cure cancer now.
With the magic solution, Every Democrat has more funding.
You look at the timing of this, you look at the setting of this, everything about this, including 95% of the speech pointed to him running.
The incongruency was him saying he wasn't going to run.
Look, folks, we have all kinds of stuff in the news.
We have the Donald Trump stack today, which is loaded with new polling data.
We have the Paul Ryan and Speaker of the House stack and audio sound bites accompanying all of that.
And a bunch of other news that is and semi-related to things going.
For example, let me run through some of these things, because if I put these off, I'll end up not getting to them and have to save them for tomorrow, then that won't work, and I'll save them for the next day.
Let me just go through some of these things now.
And we'll take a break, come back and start with some of your phone calls.
Bernie Sanders tweeted something out that even his supporters started scratching their heads over.
What Bernie Sanders tweeted essentially was evidence that he doesn't understand economics 101 at all.
Bernie Sanders has been suggesting that college should be more affordable.
College should be free.
I mean, that was his big point in the debate.
And a couple of days ago, he tweeted that college student loans should not have a higher interest rate than loans for cars or for homes.
His actual tweet was it makes no sense that students and their parents pay higher interest rates for college than they pay for car or housing loans.
Now let me just ask, do any of you think that makes sense?
I bet you to a lot of people, it's kind of seductive, within the confines of fairness.
Well, yes, it does seem unfair that young college students should have a higher interest rate in people buying cars or houses.
But what is the economic ignorance in it?
Well, the way it's it's all about collateral.
What's a college?
What's a what's a student have?
What's a collateral?
If the student bugs out on the loan, you're going to repossess the diploma.
Diploma's worthless even in the hands of the graduate these days.
You make a loan to somebody buying a car, a mortgage, somebody buying a house, if they don't pay it back, you repossess and you've got some collateral.
But a student loan, there's no collateral whatsoever.
And he has clueless, he hasn't the slightest bit of understanding about this.
There isn't any collateral with a student loan.
The interest rate is far higher.
The government runs the student alone program now.
Most students who take out loans have no incomes, obviously.
So the rate is going to be higher.
And here's a guy been in Congress for 20 years and thinks everything should be free and thinks there's this golden goose out there that just prints money every day just for being a lot, just existing, and that it's his job to go grab as much of that golden goose money as he can because it's unfair the way it's distributed now, who doesn't have a basic econ 101 understanding.
That's just interesting little tidbit.
Have you heard the um I've seen this a couple places now.
ESPN is in trouble economically, financially.
ESPN just announced that they're going to have to cut minimum 350 jobs.
And the reason why is subscribers are abandoning cable.
Many people do not understand how all of this works, the cable bundle.
I mean, you understand that you have to pay a minimum amount per month to get a bunch of channels, the vast majority of which you never watch.
But the channels you want are in that bundle, and you have to pay for the bundle.
So let's say you want your local stations, you want ESPN, maybe HBO.
Fine.
You've got to buy 25 or 30 or maybe other channels that you never watch.
Now, but here's the thing about that.
In a free market, these networks with no audience wouldn't survive.
If you have a network programming that nobody watches, then there won't be any ratings and you won't be able to sell any advertising and you won't be able to operate.
If, however, the cable companies collect X amount per subscriber as though they are viewers, and then pay that to the network, then the network can stay alive and viable, even though nobody may be watching it.
ESPN gets $6 per cable subscriber every month.
That's ESPN's gravy train.
And when cord cutting begins, when people eliminate cable from their lives, then the number of people paying for the bundle out of which ESPN gets six bucks per customer, that starts dwindling away, and ESPN's income dwindles away, and it doesn't matter how many viewers they have or not.
And this is the point.
With the cable bundle, it doesn't matter how many viewers a network has.
In ESPN's case, it doesn't matter.
Because they're going to get $6 for every household that has ESPN in its cable package.
The interesting thing is 3.2 million people have cut the cord so far.
3.2 million people have cut their cable subscription.
Good.
And that means that a good percentage of that 3.2 million people are no longer funding ESPN at $6 a month.
And they are leaving cable for a bunch of market reasons.
They don't have the money.
Young people can't get jobs, they don't have the money.
They don't want to pay for things they don't watch.
They'd rather take the money they have and a la cart their way via streaming or whatever, and watch it on their device, and maybe if they have airplay projected onto a TV or something, but they don't want to pay cable.
Well, 3.2 million people, many of them probably not even sports fans.
That's going to add up to a serious chunk of change.
That's $250 million a year for ESPN.
ESPN's in close to 100 million homes.
But if they lose 3.2 million subscribers, that's a loss of 250 million dollars a year, and that's why they are cutting 350 jobs.
But here is the PS de resistance.
This is what everyone needs to know.
Bundled cable subscriptions serve as the foundation for Hollywood to own pop culture.
John Knalty at Breitbart makes this point extremely well today.
Hollywood does not have to generate audience in order to generate income.
All they have to do is secure networks being carried by carried by cable in a basic tier, or maybe next tier up.
And they get funded by customers who never watch the network, or very few do, because they're not buying for these obscure channels that are all left-wing rubbish, many of them are.
That's how they remain viable.
That's how they remain in operation without anybody watching them.
People paying the cable channels, the cable companies.
Every network gets a certain amount of money per subscriber.
ESPN's at top at six bucks.
Nope, not every channel gets that.
Some get 50 cents, 75 cents, but what have you.
But the scam of bundled cable is the foundation of Hollywood's money and cultural power.
Look at it this way.
If Hollywood was not able to force people to pay for networks and programming they never watch.
MSNBC could not stay on the air if it weren't for cable bundles.
CNN ditto, folks, they don't have enough audience to be viable with just their audience.
They couldn't survive without cable and these subscriber percentages that they collect.
Same with Comedy Central.
Nobody watches Comedy Central.
Not enough people watch Comedy Central to support it via advertising.
Ditto MTV.
But they all get a percentage of everything you pay monthly to cable to sustain them.
And millennials are leading the way unknowing about this impact.
In taking away some of that staying power.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
Sit tight.
We'll be back and continue.
Looky here, folks.
From the UK Guardian, wealth therapy tackles the woes of the rich.
It's really isolating to have lots of money.
This is a story about the struggles of affluenza, which we call to your attention many, many moons ago.
It really is about how tough it is to be rich when nobody else has any money.
And it's guilt, and it's what turns people into liberals.
You wait.
I want to grab a call.
This is Ed and Louisville.
Great to have you on the program.
Ed, you're up first today.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I just wonder your opinion.
Do you think this is going to be a repeat of 1984 with uh uh Biden not in?
As you said, Sanders doesn't have a chance.
Uh let Hillary run it.
Yeah, get her out of the way.
The loss calls, let's just concentrate on 2020.
Uh okay, 1984.
I know what he means.
1984, they let Walter of Mondo uh get the nomination because they knew that Reagan was going to win big and they owed Mondal.
So let him run now, get him out of the way.
We know he's never going to win, and it will we'll prepare ourselves for uh for for later on.
I don't think the Democrats uh it's an interesting theory.
Uh but I don't think, given what we talked about yesterday, how they just they've lost over 1,200 seats down the ballot all over this country house, governor, state legislature.
I think it is an obsession with them to hold the White House.
I don't I don't think Hillary's a throwaway in this regard, although she is owed this.
They do owe this to her.
Uh who knows what went on behind the scenes to make this Biden thing happen.
It's so odd.
I can't wait till we get these sound bites or cookies rolling them off now.
I remember I was at the Democrat convention in San Francisco in 1984, and a family friend of ours, his guys from Sykston, Missouri, which is a half hour south of Cape Girardo.
He came up to me at a uh Gephart party I attended, and he said, tell you what, Rush, tell you what, you spot me a hundred electoral votes so we can win this election.
What are you talking about?
Spot you a hundred electoral votes.
I'm damn right, Rush.
A hundred electoral, you get we can win this election.
That's where they were in 1984.
Six million more students with bachelor's degrees than jobs available for them.
Sunscreen may be destroying coral reefs.
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